https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Buru_%28legendary_creature%29Buru (legendary creature) - Revision history2026-10-30T00:02:01ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buru_(legendary_creature)&diff=110587&oldid=prev>Cxbrx: Removed Notes section, use References instead. Moved Blackburn to be an inline ref. Added {{cn}} for the last Buru.2021-01-20T00:31:19Z<p>Removed Notes section, use References instead. Moved Blackburn to be an inline ref. Added {{cn}} for the last Buru.</p>
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{{Infobox mythical creature<br />
|name = Buru<br />
|AKA = ''bura'', ''buro'', ''bru''<br />
|Country = [[India]]<br />
|Region = [[Arunachal Pradesh]] <br />
|Habitat = Marsh<br />
}}<br />
The '''''buru''''' or '''''bura''''' is an aquatic animal featured in a [[Origin myth#Founding myth|foundation myth]] of the [[Apatani people]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Blackburn |first=S. H. |year=2008 |title=Himalayan tribal tales: Oral tradition and culture in the Apatani Valley |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004171336 |pages=117—118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=sXQDpDBzgvUC&oi=fnd&pg=PG117 |access-date=January 19, 2020}}</ref> Stories of the migration of the Apatani to their present location in the Ziro Valley of [[Arunachal Pradesh]] tell of a swamp occupying the valley, inhabited by fierce, crocodile-like creatures.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5893/|title=Apatani Cultural Landscape|publisher=[[UNESCO]]}}</ref> Draining the swamp, and destroying the creatures allowed them to cultivate fertile paddy fields and settle the valley.<br />
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In 1945 and 1946, James Phillip Mills and Charles Stonor gathered details about Buru from the Apatani people. According to the [[Apatani people|Apatani]] elders, when their forefathers migrated to Ziro valley, the valley was primarily a [[marsh]] which was populated by Burus. The Apatani people decided to settle in the valley because of its fertility and good climate. But every now and then they would have confrontations with burus. So they decided to drain the marsh of its water and thus eliminate the Burus when they were draining swamps for rice cultivation.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology|year=2002|url=https://archive.org/details/mysteriouscreatu00eber_438|url-access=limited|page=[https://archive.org/details/mysteriouscreatu00eber_438/page/n115 77]|author=George M. Eberhart|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|isbn=9781576072837}}</ref> Most of the Burus died because of the drainage, and many supposedly went underground into the springs.<br />
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In 1947, Professor [[Christopher von Furer-Haimendorf]] was another westerner to be told about the Buru. By that time, the animals had reportedly already become extinct in the valley.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Apa Tanis and Their Neighbours: A Primitive Civilization of the Eastern Himalayas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3fxJth8ZwqgC|page=63|publisher=Psychology Press|year=2004|isbn=9780415330473}}</ref><br />
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The last Buru was said to be reported by a young woman, who sighted it in a spring one night while she was drawing water. The startled lady told her father about the incident. The next day the whole village helped fill the spring with stones and clay.{{Citation needed|reason=In what reference is the story of the last Buru covered?|date=January 2021}}<br />
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